The Penn's Grove record., 1887-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEN.

80 a"s
points about Little Rock, Arkansas.
For four days fires have been raging
on the hills and in the bottoms of the
Red and Sulphur river heal Texar-
kama, sweeping everything before them.
All available help is employed in fight
ing the flames. Large numbers Of cat
tie and hogs have been burned. Fires
were burning all around the town Of
Hope, Arkansas, on the 18th. The
farmers are lighting the fire, but with
little hope of staying its progress with
out rain. Everything is dry; wells and
small streams everywhere are drying
up under the Influence Of what is said
to be the longest drought known there.
On the evening of the 18th a bomb
was discovered In the State Journal Of
fee in Columbus, Ohio. 1t was made
of an iron pipe, with both ends cloied
AID IN oil fuse attached which Jas
tipped with an ordinary match. 1t las
so arranged at the door OF the local e-
partment that the match coulds3be
lighted by any one passing and ~
ping upon 1t. Tue police are making
an investigation. The fuse was 6red
but there was no explosion.
Lewis and Horace Vennest we're
on tine 10Th found guilty at Elizabeth
New Jersey, of burning the Carman
Parse House. John NJ. Jackson, the
third defendant, pleaded guilty. A
number of Anarchists, among whom
vas John Most, gathered at their head.
quarters In New York on the evening
Of the 10th to hold a meeting. Fear
ing that the police would raid the
place, and seeing reporters from differ
ent newspaper offices hanging around
the hall. no meeting was held. Instead.
they denounced the ''capitalistlc press''
and the police. Ernest Koening one of
the number, was arrested for ASSAULT
ing IA nespaper man. The police Sc
cured a box of cartridges he tired to
throw away. A despatch from Austin.
| Texas, says information received there
in official quarters shows that the
bandits injecting the Rio Grande are
being hotly pursued and hard pressed
by the Texas Rangers and the Mexican
authorities acting in conjunction. The
most noted criminals of the gang have
been killed or captured and the others
are scattered. For some time past
Port Huron, Michigan. and Sarnia,
Ontario, have been flooded with coun-
terfeit silver dollars and nickel COINS.
Early on the morning Of the 10th Off.
GERS searched the DeighborIng houses
Of John Mack and F. w. Ernest, sew
eral miles from Port Huron, and found
counterreiters' outfits and bogus coin.
Mack and Ernest and their wives
have been lodged in Jail.
Mrs. Thomas p. Woods attempted
to shoot her husband in the hearing
room Of the Criminal Court 1t Pitts
ourg, on the 10Th. Several months
ago it is charged lie eloped with his
servant girl. Ills wife followed and
had the couple arrested, but she was
unable to prove her marriage, and
they were released.
The boiler In W. z. Wilson 4
Co.'S saw mill, nea Prescott, Arizona,
exploded on the 10Th, killing six men
and ipjuring a number of others.
james Wilson. an ex-convict, 80
years old, attempted to shoot and kill
his wife in New York on the evening
Of the 10Th, but was himself shot and
tally wounded by Vincent Danio, an
Italian. The latter was shot through
the hand before he succeeded in wrest-
ing the revolver from Wilkinson.
The little town of CRANKY, four
miles from Neosho, Missouri, was
nearly all destroyed by fire on the 10th. |
About 100 stores and dwelling were
burned and the loss estimated at $780,. |
DOC.
On the evening of the Goth, A. !
Stout shot and killed his son Adolph,
aged 20 years, at their home in Pitts
burg, and then shot himself, but only !
inflicted a flesh wound. The cause Of
the tragedy was domestic troubles.
stout aud his wife frequently quarreIled
and the son, it is said, took his mothers
part
"A construction train on the Cleve-
land and PittsbHrg Railroad ON the
morning of the 10th. ran into a pile Sfl
rocks and dirt, which had fallen from
tue hillside during the night near Steu- !
benyiile, Ohio. Six cars were piled
into a heap. Engineer p. E. johnson
and brakeman Hugh Niles were KILLED,
and Fireman j. T. Russell was severely |
and several others slightly injured.
-Four men were killed by the
wreck of a freight train on the Next
can Central Railroad, ~ miles SOUTH
west of Ell Paso, Texas, on the evening
of the 10th.
The New Jersey Central pay car
vas thrown over an embankment be-
tween Pen Argyle and Bangor. Penns~,
on the 10th. and completely wrecked.
Paymaster Hess, Detective Beers, Con-
ductor Duryear and a breakman were